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2011-2012 Annual Giving Message: TASL Celebrates First Decade  Training Sport Leaders of Tomorrow

In the fall of 2002, seven women met in an Ann Arbor kitchen to share a chili dinner and to air our concerns regarding the state of women's athletics.

We were surprised, and troubled by the fact that, since the passage of Title IX legislation in 1972, the number of womens' sports programs headed by female coaches had dropped precipitously, from 90% to 42%. So, we resolved to reverse that trend by creating an organization to collaborate with Michigan high schools and to train the next generation of female coaches--starting with our state.

Thus ten years ago, The Academy for Sport Leadership was born.

It took us four months to move from the kitchen table to the coaching clipboard. By the summer of 2003, we were ready to launch our first Future Coaches Camp, which remains TASL's flagship program. We soon were offering coach-mentor training workshops as well as information and podcasts on womens' sport issues. We began hosting a biannual Womens' Sport Summit. We established an athletics administrator internship. Finally, we determined to ensure our all-volunteer organization's permanence through the creation of the TASL Endowment Fund. And we initiated this annual appeal.  

Thanks to a very loyal group of supporters and new supporters like you, TASL is entering our second decade. Just this past year, we can point to new achievements by the young women of TASL:

• Our alumna network is 75 strong. We hear from several alums. They have stories worthy of the TASL mission, as they move into leadership positions in established and new sport organizations--coaching in youth recreation leagues as well as in after-school athletics programs, among them, Girls in the Game.
• Our most recent college intern became the tenth in an accomplished group of young women currently coaching and teaching in both high school and in college. 

To keep TASL's support for young women coaches growing in our 10th anniversary year, we've set our fundraising goal at $10,000. Consider it: Ten Thousand Dollars to Acknowledge Ten Years.  

It is your dollars and annual contributions that are also sustaining and growing TASL, now being recognized by Michigan's sport leaders. 

This fall, we learned the Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (MIAAA) has nominated TASL President, Meg Seng, for the Jack Johnson Distinguished Service Award in recogniton for her work with TASL over the past decade. 

Please consider making a gift to support the young women taking part in TASL's programs, as we move into our second decade. Your generosity gives young female sport leaders a genuine opportunity to learn the special skills essential to their own winning careers in coaching.

You can contribute to TASL online or by mail.

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TASL
PO Box 131226

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48113

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Thank you very much for your decision to support TASL.